On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Maybe Exim should use gethostbyname() less, using DNS resolver
> functions instead.
Well, in the smtp transport the lookuphost and domainlist routers, it
uses it only if you configure it to do so, so that's the admin's choice.
However, there are a few other places where it uses gethostbyname()
unconditionally. For example, a policy setting such as
host_reject = a.b.c.d
uses it to find the IP address of a.b.c.d. Maybe these should be
configurable. I'll think about this.
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